SPARC Open Access Newsletter #141 summarizes 2009 OA developments

Posted Thu, 01/14/2010 - 11:14am by eileen

The January 2010 issue of SPARC Open Access Newsletter (#141) offers an extremely comprehensive summary of developments in open access throughout 2009. It's a dense read but stuffed with nuggets, and includes summaries in the areas of:

  1. open access policies at funding agencies
  2. open access policies at universities
  3. growth numbers
  4. open archiving
  5. open access journals
  6. data
  7. books
  8. licensing
  9. effects of the recession
  10. worst and best in 2009 (good overall overview)

SPARC Open Access Newsletter is sponsored and published by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC); Peter Suber, Editor

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The SPARC issue #141 for 1-02-10 jam-packed with news on OA - including worst and best of 2009